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Seize the Grey denies Derby winner Mystik Dan in Preakness, dashes hopes for Triple Crown
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ESPN.com

Seize the Grey denies Derby winner Mystik Dan in Preakness, dashes hopes for Triple Crown

By ESPN News D. Wayne Lukas worked his way to Seize the Grey after his horse won the Preakness Stakes and kept getting interrupted by well-wishers offering congratulations. "I think they're trying to get rid of me," Lukas, 88, said. "They probably want me to retire. I don't think that'll happen." Not when the Hall of Fame trainer keeps winning big-time races. Seize the Grey ended Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid Saturday by going wire to wire to win the Preakness, giving Lukas his seventh victory in the race, one short of the record held by his good friend Bob Baffert. READ THE FULL STORY AT ESPN NEWS
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Kentucky Derby at 150: American sports tradition predates the automobile and the airplane, radio and television
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National, Sports Illustrated

Kentucky Derby at 150: American sports tradition predates the automobile and the airplane, radio and television

By PAT FORDE | Sports Illustrated The dominant news of the day in Kentucky on May 17, 1875, was the death of John C. Breckinridge, a U.S. Congressman turned Confederate Civil War general. Breckinridge died at the age of 54 at his home in Lexington, Ky., a divisive historical figure. His obituary filled several columns in the next day’s The Courier-Journal  newspaper. On page 4 of that Courier-Journal, a relatively modest headline read, “Derby Day.” The accompanying story chronicled the Kentucky Derby victory by the colt Aristides, in what the paper termed “a brilliant inauguration of the Louisville Jockey Club Association.” The founder of the association was Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr., grandson of William Clark, one of the principals in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.  The origina...
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